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The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom has been operating in Israel since 1983 and established its Palestinian Desk in 1994. With an Israeli-Palestinian team in a joint office in Jerusalem the foundation aims to be a platform of innovation for enhancing freedom in society, strengthening dialogue with the European Union and contribute to the advancement of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue leading towards peace. Together with our partners, we want to strengthen liberal core values like the rule of law and democracy, the respect of human dignity with civil and human rights, market economy principles and entrepreneurship and a democratic culture of tolerance and pluralism.
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Israel's Bennett-Lapid Government is a Victory for Democracy
The new and most ideologically diverse government in the history of Israel does not raise high expectations. It seems neither Left nor Right expect paradise from a coalition built on so much compromise. Yet to the polarized political climate of recent years, this is revolutionary. Only a month ago Israel faced one of the worst eruptions of communal violence in years.
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The Illusion of Peace without the Palestinians Is Fading
Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the Islamic Jihad so far holds after more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, with 12 dead, according to Israeli sources, and Israeli air strikes on more than 800 targets in the Gaza Strip, with more than 240 dead, according to Palestinian sources. Military experts believe that Israel achieved in one week as many tactical objectives in Gaza with targeted air strikes, as it did in seven weeks of a costly ground offensive in 2014.
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Israel One to Four: 1 Deadlock, 2 Years, 3 Lockdowns, 4 Elections
On the night of the 22nd of December 2020, the Knesset (Israeli parliament) disbanded, sending Israel to early elections only 9 months after its last. This will be the fourth round of Israeli elections in just two years, and according to current polls even a fifth round might be around the corner.
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Call for Palestine Desk Coordinator
We are looking for our next Palestine Desk Coordinator at the FNF Jerusalem office. For our Israeli-Palestinian team in Jerusalem we need a coordinator for managing our activities in the Palestinian Territories, analyzing political and social trends and advancing Israeli-Palestinian dialogue leading towards peace.
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Israel-Turkey Relations Are Not Only About Erdoğan and Netanyahu
2020 raised hopes that Israel and Turkey may be on their way to improve ties, despite policy differences and lack of trust. “Turkey wants better ties with Israel”, said Turkey’s President, raising speculations that the countries may send back ambassadors to each other’s capitals before too long. This will be a positive development, but Israelis and Turks should not let the fate of their countries’ relations be dependent only on their leaders’ will.
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Palestinian National Dialogue in Cairo Ahead of Upcoming Elections
The Palestinian National Dialogue sessions kicked off today in Cairo under the auspices of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The meetings held today focus on various necessary procedures for holding the upcoming legislative and presidential elections and how to end the long lasting national division between West Bank and Gaza, Fatah and Hamas.
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Female Forward - Three Outstanding Women Sharing Their Experience
We are honored to present to you the voices of three outstanding women from our FNF Alumni network. Former Minister of Health Yael German, Arab entrepreneur Bissan Salman & and journalist Nitzan Senior Shneor. The three women share their experience and advice with young female leaders on how to best pursue their goals and how to succeed despite the many hurdles along the way.
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Confronting the Coronavirus Disinformation
Confronting the coronavirus disinformation:
The corona virus stands as a major international health hazard. It also caused an economic crisis of an unpreceded and still unknown dimension, and has caused great personal and social strains due to quarantine and social distancing rules. In addition to the spread of the virus, a different and dangerous threat has been spreading rapidly as well: disinformation.
Since the corona crisis began, social media platforms have been swamped with false information about the virus, the way it spreads, who is responsible for the outbreak, what kind of medicines can assist in recovery and other conspiracy theories such as the “5G technology conspiracy”. -
Sales Strategies: Customer’s Influential Techniques & Covid-19 -JEST 5th Session
We would like to share with you the presentation of Mr. Montaser Abdullatif, a senior business leader in strengthening the private sector in the West bank & Gaza, during JEST’s (Jerusalem Entrepreneurs for Society & Technology) - 5th online session - which was was conducted in cooperation with FNF Jerusalem, and broadcasted simultaneously on Zoom and live on Facebook.
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Pivoting Business Models - JEST 3rd Session
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Hacking the Virus
Israel with its 6.000 start-ups is widely known as a leading start-up nation. However, the start-up ecosystem is concentrated in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, where 60% of all high-tech jobs in Israel are located and 77% of the high-tech companies operate.
Peripheral areas in the far North and South of the country are rather cut off from the entrepreneurial powerhouse in the center region and are hence missing out on the economic and social benefits, which the i -
68th Session of ME 2.0 Forum - Israel After Third Elections
We continue to move our activities online! Yesterday we conducted our first online session with the members of our ME 2.0 Palestinian-Israeli Young Business Leaders Forum. The zoom session was devoted to the political turmoil in which Israel finds itself since its third elections within a year, and how the recent political developments might influence future Israeli-Palestinian relations and prospects for peace negotiations. We invited two journalists, Tal Schneide
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‘Liberalism versus Populism: How can Liberals win?’
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“Women are able to innovate in all fields, including Information Technology” We would like to share with you this TV spot conducted by our partner The Psychosocial Counselling Center for Women (PSCCW) within our joint project “Catalyzing Women’s Entrepreneurship”. The projects includes selection of 20 women entrepreneurs, training and capacity building, raising awareness campaign and development of an online platform to promote their project ideas, to enhance start-ups, entrepreneurship and innovation ideas and projects of these selected women. This TV spot aims at empowering women economically, enhancing their economic participation, and promoting the idea of establishing non-traditional and distinctive projects, especially in the field of Information Technology. https://www.facebook.com/1378429479144861/posts/3017995411854918/
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Together with the Wattan Media Network, we would like to share the 3rd “Leaders for Tomorrow ”documentary video. This time titled “Najah (Inspiration and Self-Affirmation)”. For more info (Arabic), go to the Wattan website: https://www.wattan.net/ar/news/347297.html
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The 3rd inspiring story of a young change maker from our liberal alumni network in Israel is here! Shlomi Ben Sasson, is a city council member in Ramat Gan, who participated in our partner’s ישראל חופשית “City Councils Bring Freedom” course for aspiring council members trying to be more effective at advancing state and religion issues. For Shlomi, This course was very helpful in learning the needed tools to better achieve municipal goals and becoming a more effective city council member. Listen to what he has to say, and if you want to know more, go to the BeFree website: http://bfree.org.il/
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